If you happen to visit Berlin it would be well worth looking out for the Chapel of Reconciliation on Bernaeur … More
Tag: Hope
An inherited garden (a ministry parable)
We recently moved to a new home and, given how much outdoor spaces are now being used for entertaining, we … More
Even this, Lord Jesus?
Ours is a hyperbolic age, a time when words have become a devalued currency, where sentiment often masks a lack … More
Will the plague come near to our door?
The first Lord’s Day since the Covid-19 Coronavirus began to reach our shores has passed. In most fellowships in the … More
10 Thoughts in the wake of the Jarrid Wilson Tragedy
The news is becoming horribly familiar – a pastor who has been used of God, who has even counselled and … More
No pang shall be mine?
John Wesley famously summarised the final outworking of the gospel in the hearts of those within early Methodism with the … More
Hope and holidays
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom … More
Review: After Life by Ricky Gervais
The creative output of comedian, writer, director and actor Ricky Gervais is always worthy of some consideration. His past successes … More
Burial matters
These days I’m reading, thinking, and preaching a lot about heaven. This comes as a culmination of some preaching I … More
Hope by any other name
The etymology of words seldom brings us hope. If sentences and paragraphs, properly constructed and carefully concocted, are slender means … More